The Beach Boys have two different songs with basically the same title.

Imagine being a lifelong Beach Boys fan and just realizing today that they have two songs with basically the same name.

All I Want To Do from 20/20
All I Wanna Do from Sunflower

Any other artists who have the same or in essence the same song title for different songs?

 

The Rascals recorded 2 songs called "I Believe." The first one was the Ervin Drake standard and the other was a Felix Cavaliere original.
Spanky and Our Gang recorded 2 different songs called "Since You've Gone."
Paul McCartney wrote and released 2 different songs called "Hold Me Tight" (one with the Beatles and one with Wings).
Andy Williams recorded 2 different "Ave Marias" on his Christmas Present album.

 

Ah that's right about the McCartney one, forgot about that.

 

I don't know but Chuck Berry has 100 of the same song with different titles

 

And therein lies his genius.

 

The biggest abuser has to be Status Quo..... Like Chuck berry they reused the same 3 chords on every single one of their albums and most if not all their singles....

 

Anti-prog. I can dig it.

Don't get me wrong - prog has its place as well.

 

Joan Of Arc
Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

 

The Monkees

You and I - 1969 from Instant Replay

You and I - 1996 from Justus

 

The Dave Clark 5 had two hits with two different songs called Eveybody Knows

 

Elvis (well, nearly):
Trouble (1958)
T-R-O-U-B-L-E (1975)

 

The Who

I’ve had enough (Quadrophenia)
Had Enough (Who are you)

 

Not exactly the same artist, but...

Genesis - Inside and Out
Phil Collins - Inside Out

Also:
Wham! - Freedom
George Michael - Freedom '90
two completely different songs.

 

Bob Dylan had 'Bob Dylan's Dream' in 1963. Two years and 114 dreams later he had 'Bob Dylan's 115th Dream'.

 

The Orlons:

"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" -- a cover of the Goffin/King-penned Little Eva song on their All The Hits LP in 1963.
"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" -- an uptown soul tune they released as a single on ABC Records in 1967.

Here is a link to their 1963 one and below is the latter, which I consider a great lost soul record:

 

Circle Sky, The Monkees. The version on their 1994 album Justus had different lyrics than the original Head version.

 

And not that it's the same, but when I think of those, I also think of "It's Not Enough" from Endless Wire.

 

This might just be the funniest one of all. On their 1982 album Warp, the synthpop band New Musik did an original song called "All You Need Is Love" (link here).

The next song on the side was....a cover of The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love." Very amusing. When I first saw the sleeve I assumed it was a misprint, but when I realized what they'd done I was in hysterics.

PS: Speaking of New Musik, they sort of did this before. Their first album had a song called "This World Of Water," while their second one had a tune called "This World Of Walter." If you weren't paying attention, it was easy to buy the wrong album if you were after the first of these, which was the more popular one.

 

Tomorrow have 2 songs called Caught in a Web.

 

Fleetwood Mac had two songs called “Angel,” one from the Bob Welch era and then Stevie’s song from Tusk.

 

Steely Dan

Your Gold Teeth - Countdown To Ecstasy

Your Gold Teeth II - Katy Lied

 

Lou Reed - Heroin (with the VU) and The Heroine off one of his early 80s efforts.

 

Paul Simon - Think Too Much

 

The Beach Boys have a couple of other examples of this:

Darlin' from Wild Honey
Oh Darlin from Keepin' the Summer Alive

Wouldn't It Be Nice from Pet Sounds
(Wouldn't It Be Nice) To Live Again from Made in California

 

I don't know if this counts but Ringo drummed on Slow Down and Bad Boy with the Beatles and recorded two completely different songs with the same titles